New movies: Wreck-It Ralph,’ Iron Fists’

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By Al Alexander, GHNS

Oakridger - Oak Ridge, TN

By Al Alexander, GHNS

Posted Nov. 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM

By Al Alexander, GHNS

Posted Nov. 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM

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WRECK-IT RALPH

When it comes to dumb ideas for a movie, “Ralph” rates. At least it has John C. Riley lending his voice to an animated apocalypse in which Riley’s Ralph, a villain in a video game, suddenly goes off the reservation and inserts himself into other games inside the video arcade with (and I don’t use the term loosely) disastrous results.

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS

Give RZA credit for trying, but I fear for how well the hip-hop star will fare playing a 19th-century Chinese warrior. Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu add to the film’s interesting casting choices.

FLIGHT

Denzel Washington teams with Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”) for a high-flying character study about a substance-abusing airline pilot whose vices threaten to send his life into a tailspin after he performs a Sully Sullenberger-like miracle in the sky. Melissa Leo, John Goodman and Don Cheadle costar.

A LATE QUARTET

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener star as members of a celebrated string quartet that is about to hit some sour notes as they approach their 25th anniversary as an ensemble.

HOLY MOTORS

We all know a cat has nine lives, but in Leos Carax’s ambitious flick, a rich man (Denis Lavant) becomes nine different people in one day after stepping into a magical limousine. Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes and Michel Piccoli co-star.

THE LONELIEST PLANET

Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg play a betrothed couple who question their love after a quick but pivotal incident occurs while they are backpacking through the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia.

THE DETAILS

Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks play a long-married couple whose relationship is on the rocks when an infestation of raccoons threatens to bring down their bourgeois existence in this dark comedy from director Jacob Aaron Estes.